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  • Recommended Readings: October 25-31

    If you only read one article this week, engage The Real Lesson of Ebola Hysteria by Brian Brown If you’ve got more time to kill, check out this week’s other suggestions below. As always, if there is something else that you think I should be reading, please let me know in the comments section below.

  • The Value of Luther’s Two Kingdoms Today

    This post originally appeared at The Evangelical Pulpit as part of Patheos Evangelical’s Reformation Day celebration of Martin Luther’s influence on Western Christianity and Civilzation. When we think of Martin Luther, we tend to consider his Ninety-Five Theses, the “here I stand” statement of the Diet of Worms, the importance he placed on justification by…

  • PRV2: Conclusions

    This is the final post is our series examining Protestant Reactions to Vatican II. Having examined Protestant reactions to the Roman Catholic conceptions of Divine Revelation and the Church, Non-Catholic Churches, the Priesthood, the Liturgy, and Religious Freedom, what may we conclude? As noted before, the initial reactions of many Protestants to the Second Vatican…

  • PRV2: Other Issues

    This post is part of our ongoing series examining Protestant Reactions to Vatican II. While we cannot consider every facet of the Second Vatican Council that Protestant scholars have engaged, there are three remaining issues worthy of briefly considering here: reactions to Vatican II’s position on the Priesthood, the Liturgy, and Religious Freedom. It is…

  • PRV2: Protestant-Catholic Dialogue

    This post is part of our ongoing series examining Protestant Reactions to Vatican II. Another facet of the Second Vatican Council that has garnered a variety of responses from Protestant Christians involves those documents discussing the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian Churches. While not universally affirmed, the general perspective of Protestant…

  • Book Review: Maxwell Leadership Bible (Thomas Nelson)

    In case you haven’t visited a bookstore of any kind lately or don’t just browse around Amazon for the fun of it (hey, grad students can dream, right?), let me offer you a tidbit of information: there are a LOT of Bibles available today—literally, tons of Bibles. There are different translations, various styles, made for…

  • Recommended Reading: October 18-24

    If you only engage one article this week, read Culture War, Spiritual War by Peter Leithart If you have time for some additional reading, be sure to check out the suggestions below. Theology and Religion Biblical Catholicism: Battling Newman’s Ghost by Fr. Jonathan “He Wept Tears of Blood” by E. J. Hutchinson How Americans Feel…

  • PRV2: Divine Revelation and the Church

    This post is part of our ongoing series examining Protestant Reactions to Vatican II. Dei verbum and Lumen gentium, the constitutions on Divine Revelation and the Church, respectively, remain two of the most discussed documents among Protestants responding to Vatican II. Historically such interest follows from the concerns of the Protestant Reformation, where early reformers…

  • PRV2: General Responses

    This post is part of our ongoing series examining Protestant Reactions to Vatican II. Having briefly noted a history of the council and some of the historical and methodological problems associated with this study, we may now turn to the Protestant reactions to the Second Vatican Council. Here we examine several areas of engagement: Broad…

  • PRV2: Conciliar Context

    This post is part of our ongoing series examining Protestant Reactions to Vatican II. Before examining any specific reactions to Vatican II, we must negotiate several historical and methodological problems. The first is the issue of historical placement. Though nearly fifty years removed from the closing of the council, the chronological proximity of this study…